Daniel Whiteson

That's all good.

I mean, is it there beyond that sense in some deeper philosophical sense that you can't probe with experiments?

But a more concrete way to ask that question is like, well, are there aliens out there doing science, building up their own explanation from the universe?

Do they have a Higgs boson in their theory?

Or have they found some other way to describe the same set of phenomena that they observe in their particle colliders, right?

Is there an alien Higgs?

know eating haggis and and doing all that stuff or is there is there not you know are there possibly other explanations because if there are that means that our explanation isn't necessarily true it could just be a map it's not necessarily the fundamental reality so doesn't there have to be more because of dark matter and dark energy so because we

We don't know what that is, right?

That's the placeholder.

Does that tie into Higgs?

Is that maybe it's found in there somewhere?

Maybe the aliens don't know what a Higgs is, but their dark matter energy is some other...

Yeah.

A lot of really fascinating ideas there.

It's true that we don't know what dark matter is and we can't explain it.

We don't know if it's made out of particles and what those particles are, et cetera, et cetera.

That doesn't invalidate what we've learned about the universe, right?

Every experiment we've done about atoms, our theory there works.

And, you know, it might not be fundamentally true, it might be one of many options, but that doesn't make it wrong.

It means it might have the wrong context.